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     Cover: Interregnum: Inside the Gruelling and Glamorous Two-Year Battle to become the Next King of Chess by Jordan Himelfarb. Chess pieces on a green checkered board against a light background and two illustrated hands reaching toward the pieces. The title is set in the top third of the cover and the author’s name at the bottom.
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     A boy with light skin tone stands against a beige background looking up. The air around him has different coloured balloons floating on strings. In the air above his head is a red hat. Text: Son of Happy. Cary Fagan. Milan Pavlović.
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    A young motherless girl becomes friends with a teacher who is writing a novel. A moving book about promises and the nature of stories.

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     Cover: Finale, The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung by Ian Hamilton. From the best selling author of the Ava Lee Series. A man with short dark hair stands with his back faced to the camera. On the back of his suit jacket is an image of a faded city scape. This image is in black and yellow.
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    The fourth and final installment in Ian Hamilton’s exhilarating Ava Lee spin-off series The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung.

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     Cover: Malala Speaks Out. Speech by Malala Yousafzai. Commentary by Clara Fons Duocastella. Translation by Susan Ouriou. Illustrations by Yael Frankel. The title text is in a bright pink sans serif font against a brown textured background that looks like craft paper. A girl’s head is shown in profile, depicted in a simple graphic art style. The girl has dark skin tone, black hair and a bright pink hijab.
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    Malala Yousafzai, girls’ education activist, won the Nobel Peace Prize at 17. Her acceptance speech is part of the Speak Out series for young readers.

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His first collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eA Painted Field\u003c\/em\u003e, won numerous awards, including the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection and the Scottish First Book of the Year Award. His second collection, \u003cem\u003eSlow Air\u003c\/em\u003e, appeared in 2002, his third, \u003cem\u003eSwithering\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection and was a finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, and his fourth, \u003cem\u003eThe Wrecking Light\u003c\/em\u003e, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, the Costa Poetry Award, and the Forward Poetry Prize. His work appears regularly in the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2004 he received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in London.","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Robertson, Robin","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA stunning modern epic that innovatively combines noir narrative and lyrical poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/i\u003e follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can’t return home to rural Nova Scotia, and looks instead to the city for freedom, anonymity, and repair. As he finds his way from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco, we witness a crucial period of fracture in American history, one that also allowed film noir to flourish. The Dream had gone sour but — as those dark, classic movies made clear — the country needed outsiders to study and dramatize its new anxieties. Both an outsider and, gradually, an insider, Walker finds work as a journalist, and tries to piece his life together as America is beginning to come apart: riven by social and racial divisions, spiraling corruption, and the collapse of the inner cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn epic for the modern world, it is a tale of damaged people trying to find kindness in the world, of cynicism and paranoia, and of redemption. 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The evocative truth and the crystalline ring of his words, line by line, make a kind of hope in themselves.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Auth":"W.S. Merwin, author of the Pulitzer Prize winner The Shadow of Sirius","OtherText_Accolades_1":"An inter-genre tour de force, The Long Take is a restless reimagining of conventional poetics. Through the poem’s protagonist, Robertson has cast a national, cultural, psychological, and class outsider of vibrant and seedy post-war America into a palpable anti-hero eerily resonant with our contemporary world. With syncopated rhythms, staccato dialogue, and jump-scenes, the book weaves dizzying, jazz-like meditations on PTSD, masculinity, betrayal, and salvation by embodying, in sound, scent, and sixth-sense, one of America’s most hopeful and devastating decades. The result is a ravishing achievement.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Auth":"Ocean Vuong, author of the T.S. Eliot Prize winner Night Sky with Exit Wounds","OtherText_Review_0":"A propulsive verbal tour de force . . . The Long Take is an audacious and often brilliant book. Poetry needn’t be a call to action but this one raises many questions, not the least of which is: What and whom should we root for in today’s world of diminished dreams?","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_1":"Robin Robertson, one of the finest lyric poets of the age, flexes his artistic reach in a continuous narrative of more than two hundred pages, a beautiful, vigorous, and achingly melancholy hymn to the common man that is as unexpected as it is daring. Here we have a poet, at the peak of his symphonic powers, taking a great risk, and succeeding gloriously . . . The Long Take is a masterly work of art, exciting, colourful, fast-paced — the old-time movie reviewer’s vocabulary is apt to the case — and almost unbearably moving.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_Review_2":"As a work of art, this dreamlike exploration is a triumph; as a timely allegory, it is disturbingly profound . . . Robertson’s The Long Take is one of the first major achievements of twenty-first-century English-language literature.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Financial Times","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e offers a wholly unique literary voice and form. A verse novel with photographs, it manages to evoke with exceptional vividness aspects of post-World War Two history that are rarely parsed together. Swinging effortlessly between combat with its traumatic aftermath, and the brute redevelopment of American cities, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e shows us the ravages of capitalism as a continuation of war-time violence by other means. It is also a bold, eloquent homage to cinema as perhaps the only medium in which the true history of America has been preserved. This is a genre-defying novel. Cutting from battlefield to building demolitions in San Francisco and LA, to the killing of black men on the streets of America today, it imports into the very form of the writing one of the most famous film techniques: cross-cutting. You could be in the cinema, or listening to an elegy, or reading the story of one man’s devastating experience as he tries to rebuild the shards of his life after the war. A pageant of loss, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e is also a lyrical tribute to the power of writing and image to convey, and somehow survive, historic and ongoing suffering and injustice.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Man Booker Prize Judges’ Citation","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the inner journey of Canadian veteran Walker as he travels from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco attempting to rebuild his life after living through the horrors of war in Europe. In poetry of the utmost beauty, Robin Robertson interweaves themes from the great age of black and white films, the destruction of communities as cities destroy the old to build the new, the horrors of McCarthyism and the terrible psychological wounds left by war. Robertson shows us things we’d rather not see and asks us to face things we’d rather not face. But with the pulsing narrative drive of classic film noir, the vision of a poet, and the craft of a novelist, \u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e courageously and magnificently boosts the Walter Scott Prize into its next decade.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4_Auth":"Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Judges’ Citation","OtherText_Review_5":"Composed in a mixture of verse and prose, The Long Take is a book with a big heart. The beauty of the language will seduce the reader from the very start. How do we put ourselves back together in a damaged world? How do we keep our conscience alive and ourselves well-balanced when everything else is slipping away, changing too fast? How much of the past should we allow ourselves to even remember when all that matters is to stay in the present moment, to stay afloat? By taking this long journey west — across New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles — Robin Robertson tells a universal story. With its undeniable beauty; quiet, modest but strong pull, this book will shift something in your soul. By the time you have finished reading it, you won't quite be the same.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"Goldsmiths Prize Judges’ Citation","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Long Take\u003c\/em\u003e remarkably captures linguistic styles of 1940s American writing — Saroyan and Steinbeck. As it progresses into the mid-50s we’re hearing Ginsberg and Baldwin … you will be washed in all these when you read this poem … Robertson has chosen a supremely uncomfortable, recognizable flashpoint in U.S. history, an almost perfect mirror image of the nation today: crude, newly unleashed material ambitions mix with off-the-chart levels of fear and paranoia. The only difference is that then it was Russkies and immigrants, and now, uh …\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Sunday Herald","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"The Long Take is a noir tale that follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_1":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_2":"Winner","PrizeCodeText_3":"Short-listed","PrizeCodeText_4":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_5":"Short-listed","PrizeCode_0":"01","PrizeCode_1":"01","PrizeCode_2":"01","PrizeCode_3":"04","PrizeCode_4":"03","PrizeCode_5":"04","PrizeName_0":"Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction","PrizeName_1":"Roehampton Poetry Prize","PrizeName_2":"Goldsmiths Prize","PrizeName_3":"Man Booker Prize","PrizeName_4":"An Economist Book of the Year","PrizeName_5":"Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award","PrizeYear_0":"2018","PrizeYear_1":"2018","PrizeYear_2":"2018","PrizeYear_3":"2018","PrizeYear_4":"2018","PrizeYear_5":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-10-30","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"The Long Take is a noir tale that follows Walker, a survivor of D-Day, from bucolic Cape Breton to an America beset by paranoia and corruption.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
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With the world teetering on the brink of a devastating water crisis, humanity urgently needs the vision, wisdom, and solutions in Blue Future.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDavid R. Boyd, Author of The Environmental Rights Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"David R. Boyd, Author of The Environmental Rights Revolution","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Maude Barlow first establishes water as a human right, and then takes us through the titanic struggle, country by country, to make that right come alive. It’s jolting, compelling, astonishingly comprehensive, and beautifully organized. No one but Maude could have written this tour de force.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eStephen Lewis, Author of Race Against Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Stephen Lewis, Author of Race Against Time","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“Blue Future offers yet another clarion call to action. 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     Cover: Valid, Dystopian Autofiction, by Chris Bergeron, translated by Natalia Hero. Hot-pink type against a black background fills the entire cover.
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    A work of queer autofiction and a speculative look at our dark future, Valid is the story of a trans woman who leads her own revolution.

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     Testament
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     Tecumseh and Brock
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